Among many FromSoftware signatures, the Dark Souls developer's NPCs always seem to talk, you know, like that. They're cryptic and brittle, giving the minimum amount of information and surrendering zero context while they laugh, chuckle, or even chortle in the most unsettling way possible. Then you do a few quests, forget them for a while, and come back to find you missed one of their key triggers so now they're a corpse with an item drop attached, or else they've gone loony and try to attack you.
Could a whole game be about Doing The Fromsoft NPC Voice? Turns out it can.
